Year 4

Autumn Term

Welcome to Year 4! We are excited to return to school on Thursday, 4th September. We have a fun-filled Autumn term with lots of new, exciting topics across the curriculum.

This page will be regularly updated to keep parents, carers, and children informed of what we are learning about at school.

Drop-off and collection times: 

Drop-off: 8:40 am (Register taken at 8:50 am)

Collection: 3:20 pm

Daily Equipment:   

• Please ensure your child brings their homework diary and a reading book in each day. 
• They are also welcome to bring in a small pencil case with a pencil, ruler, rubber, sharpener, black handwriting pen, purple pen and colouring pencils.   
• As we are an all-weather school, children should bring a coat with them each day, as they will be outside at playtimes unless the weather is terrible.    

 Dates for Autumn Term 1

September

Weds 3rd - INSET

Thurs 4th  - Year 1- 6 back to school

Mon 8th  - Reception start

Wed 10th  - Music Works assembly 2 pm – 3 pm

Tues 16th  -  4BR swimming lessons 9:40 am – 10:40 am (11 lessons, finishing 2nd December)

Sat 20th - British Heart Foundation cycle event, PTFA doing the refreshments

Thurs 25th - Individual and sibling photos

October 

 October half-term - 27th to 31st October

PE days    

4BR: children will need to be in their P.E. kit on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

4G: children will need to be in their P.E. kit on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

 In Y4 the children will be having swimming lessons. Each class will have a total of 11 sessions each at Cranleigh School

This term will begin with 4BR every Tuesday morning, starting on 16th September until 2nd December.

4G will then swim every Tuesday morning, starting on 9th December until 17th March.

Top-up swimming lessons will take place for invited children. On swimming days, children are to come to school dressed in their PE kits, with their swimming things in a separate bag (goggles are optional but recommended).  Please ensure that children have long hair tied back, ready for the lesson.  

Maths   We follow the White Rose scheme of learning.   

More information is available here: White Rose Website 

Autumn 1 Curriculum Focus

• Place Value

Maths homework : 

 Homework sessions will be set on TTRockstars. 

This will be 15 minutes on Garage each week plus 2 soundcheck games. Garage helps them to learn the tables they are not yet confident with, and Soundcheck prepares them for the Multiplication Tables Check. Once the set homework is complete, children can play any of the games for additional practice, including 'Jamming' to practise specific tables without the timer; 'Studio' to increase speed and Rock Status; and 'Soundcheck' to prepare for the summer term times tables test. 

https://ttrockstars.com/

A maths homework sheet will also be sent home each Friday to be returned the following Friday. This will be additional arithmetic practice to aid children's fluency and familiarity with written methods that have been learned at school.

English

As a school, we use Talk4Writing as a framework- all units are based on this.

English homework:

Reading: your child should read daily and record in their homework diary.  

Spelling: at least 5 games on Spelling Shed each week (Spellings will be updated each Monday.)

     https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/

What are we doing in other subjects this half term?

Science:

History:

Geography:

Art:

DT:

RE: 

ICT: 

PHSCE: 

MUSIC: tone and singing and Year 4 production!

(The children have a weekly music lesson with our music specialist teacher, Mrs Bell, in the music room) 

Library :

We visit the library as a class each week. The library is also open to the children every lunchtime and after school on Tuesdays (with an adult.)

Children may borrow two books for a period of two weeks.

At the end of the loan period, books must be returned to school where the loan can be renewed if required. If a book is lost, please talk to

Mrs Bickmore or Mrs Burnham. We ask for a contribution of £5.00 towards replacing lost books. Children can log in to their Reading Cloud

accounts from home to check their current loans or look for suggestions about what to read next.

                    To access Reading Cloud, click here.